Religion Booknotes

CompassionLoving Our Neighbor in an Age of GlobalizationMaureen H. O’ConnellOrbis, $32, 256 pp.

Originally written by Maureen H. O’Connell as a dissertation, Compassion is a study both of compassion itself and of its conditions and implications in an era of globalization. It is easy enough to say that we sympathize with the plight of those who...

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